GROUNDBREAKING FOR SCRIPPS FLORIDA: (left to right) Palm Beach County
Commissioners Addie L. Greene and Warren Newell, Scripps Research President Richard A. Lerner, M.D., Florida Governor Jeb Bush, County Commission Chairman Tony Masilotti, Scripps Florida Funding Corporation Board Chairman Marshall Criser, Commissioner Mary McCarty, and Scripps Research COO Douglas A. Bingham toss the first shovelsful of soil at the site of the new Scripps Florida campus Friday. This first phase of construction is expected to be completed in late 2007. Photo: Lucien Capehart Photography.